The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-10
ABOUT GEN. DARR.
why He ts Hus tiag Down the I'm.
fortunate Hfssane.

i've years ago.
He paid its penalty in Sing Sing
and was pardoned.
William Kissane- Rodgers for thir-
ty years has been prosperous and
trusted citizen of California-trusted
even by those who knew his early
history.
Has he not brought forth fruits
meet for repentance2"
Many who know him say, HE
has"
"Then," the question goes up from
the thousands who have read the re-
markable story of his life in the Her
AIDS columns, why may not this
mouldy indictment, pigeon holed
thirty-three years ago for good rea-
sons, be now nolle pressed at his
requestP
Another mystery rises to view as
soon as the first has been disposed of.
GEN. DARR's LETTER.
One week ago Tuesday Lawyer j.
b. Hart, Of San Francisco, walked
in before Recorder Smyth at the
Court Of General Sessions and made
the motion to nolle pros the old ks
sane indictment, which has called out
the whole story.
Gen. Francis Darr, formerly Of
New York and now of San Francisco,
was beforehand in the matter, and
some time ago, anticipating the move
ment, had sent letter to District
Attorney MARITIME about the case.
1.-The man is murderer" he said,
and continuing stated:
Kissane, by fight and change of
name, has so far evaded justice and
arrest for over. thirty years. He did
my family a great wrong, and L have
hoped to find him all these years. |
have at last succeeded-recognized
and identified him beyond doubt.
He is a prominent man in the State
and has great wealth. One of his
brothers is leading lawyer in this
State, too, under an assumed name,
and their real names and history are
not dreamed of by the public.
His repentance is all nonsense. He
has never offered restitution to the
many he has wronged. | send my
request to Mr.. MARITIME to defeat any
effort Of Kissane or his friends to re-
move legal claims upon him.
The letter reads we'll enough and
has truthful air to it. Then the
title of general gives a presumption
of high responsibility and Of course
high principles of action to the
writer. AS a matter of course it had
weight with the Recorder to make
him very shy of giving assent to nolle
pressing the indictment.
WHO is GEN. DARR, ANYWAY?
Who is Gen. Francis Darr, and are
the facts in his letter true2
The question is worth an answer
A Herald reporter yesterday found
a gentleman who knows Gen. Franci:
Darr from top to toe, in Cincinnati
and in New York. He pronounced
the Generals part in the affair ques,
tionable on the mildest construction
1T is all bosh, he said, for Gen.
Darr to say, as he did in his letter to
Mr.. MARITIME, that he (Kissane) did
my family great wrong and | have
hoped to find him all these years.
Then, in another letter, he tells ar
untruth. In that he wrote: L am 6
native of Cincinnati and was of the
old firm of Gross e. Dietrich. Oul
factory candles, soaps and oils) was
destroyed In 1851 by the incendiar!
aote of William KisSanei
"Now, | am Cincinnatian borr
and bred, and 1 know all about that
The candle factory was burned by al
incendiary in the winter of 1850-5l
and there was good reason to faster
the charge on Kissane. He used t,
: furnish the firm with lard, iron
which they made lard oil and can
dies. They thought he 'doctored
J his lard, and when they refused t
buy more he said, significantly
We'll, you'll buy nobody else's.' I
few nights afterward the factory wa
, set on FIRE and burned. The watch
man said man ran away whom h
recognized as Kissane, and anothe
man met the same fellow and ais
recognized him as Kissane. Blu
y sufficient evidence was not obtained
The firm was not ruined BY the f-t
but very soon rebuilt and were a
prosperous as ever.
= DARR NOT INJURED BY KIssANI
i NOW, Darr had no connectio
n whatever with the firm save that h
J. was the nephew Of Mr., Dietrich
o He was Forty miner, and during a
J. this time he was in California.
J. "Some time after-it was in 18S
o bv his own reckoning, and after th
70 burning of the steamboat Marth
Washington and her bogus cargo @
d Helena, Ark, in which kiss ne WI
r. implicated, and in consequence
If which he had to leave Cincinnati
= Darr came back to the city. | hay
N my doubts OF his having met kissar
Is that time. They had lived in diffe
d emit parts of the city. Then he b
% came shipping clerk for Stepht
Ie Smith Boyer, a liquor dealer. II
J. was fred there, and his uncle too
n, him into the employ of Gross & Die
~ | rlCn as SulpHlus SlSiN' IL ADoO
O. married a daughter of MIR. Gro
d against the wishes of the famil
10 who had small confidence in him.
& "When the war broke out he we
to the front as Quartermaster' Sc
ID geant in the Tenth Ohio volunteer
l. He served on the stats Of Gener
10 Rosecrans and Buell., and came o
of with the rank ofmajor, He was O
VS. of the officers brevetted by Congre
h at the close of the war, and there 3
IN his title as general.
s. FILrBusTERINd IN NEW YORK.
Ia During the war Andrew Gro
h his father. in law, had come East a.
Of established the firm of A. Gross
n Co, in the candle business at Jers
" CITY. For this firm Darr worked I
ter the war, and as l had also col
X East, my acquaintance with him W
ne renewed, He never was an engine
ON in the New York Central s employ,
N, "He was always dependent on !
IS. father-in-law's family. Finally,
,,, n o,,r,noct and under nrOtpst he "